AT THE GATES: The Red in the Sky is Ours, 92. LP. Death

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	$		51

Description

At the Gates rose from the ashes of Grotesque, a Swedish Black / Death Metal band from the late 80s. With the “Gardens of Grief” E.P. the band already showed a definitive shift from the sound of Grotesque and the bottom-heavy sound was more related to other bands of the time. The vocals were much deeper, for the most part, but the release showed promise.

”The Red In the Sky Is Ours“ is the debut full-length from Sweden's At the Gates. This is truly a masterpiece of an album, and far surpasses anything the band would go on to release. The spirit of Grotesque lives on here, but in much different form. This is not typical Swedish Death Metal, at all. In many aspects, this album possesses a similar feel and the structures are quite more complicated than most Death Metal. However, it does feature some of the rhythmic structures of that subgenre.

At the Gates are often considered the ‘fathers’ of melodic death metal, and while the term itself may be of doubtful utility as a genre tag, it certainly provides a reasonable starting point for understanding “The Red in the Sky is Ours”. While its basic approach to instrumentation clearly marks it as a death metal album, there is an underlying awareness of the emerging black metal movement in the fluid tremolo picked melodies (sometimes consonant, sometime dissonant, sometimes built just from the fragments of the chromatic scale - always with the chill of the Void in their depths) that form that compositional backbone and chief vessel for meaning in these songs.

It was perhaps inevitable that excellence of this magnitude would prove unsustainable, at least in the strike-while-the-iron-is-hot world of modern recording. While At the Gates would go on to release three more albums, none even remotely approached the rapturous levels reached with “The Red in the Sky is Ours”. However, the greatness of this album is such that even subsequent mediocrity can in no way dim the glory of a band that once stood at the very pinnacle of their artform.

dimension:   9 track album

label:  Deaf Records

extras, comments: with lyrics, perfect condition. ORIGINAL RELEASE from 1992.

style:  Death Metal.

Side A:

• The red in the sky is ours/ The Season to come
• Kingdom Gone
• Through gardens of grief
• Within

 

Side B:

• Windows
• Claws of Laughter Dead
• Neverwhere
• The Scar
• Night Comes, Blood Black

 

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